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Rural In-migrant Business Owners
6-Jun-2007
I am a second year PhD student at the Macaulay Research Institute and
the University of Aberdeen. My research concerns people who
move to rural Scotland and set up a new business or relocate an existing
one. The main foci of the work are to look firstly at why they choose a
particular area, both as a business location and as a new home for
themselves and any family and secondly, what networks people use to help
the growth of their business - whether they be local, external, social
or professional etc. It is hoped that this work will enable a deeper
understanding of migrants' motivations - what draws people into certain
areas - and also of the networks that nurture and support new business
development in rural areas.
the University of Aberdeen. My research concerns people who
move to rural Scotland and set up a new business or relocate an existing
one. The main foci of the work are to look firstly at why they choose a
particular area, both as a business location and as a new home for
themselves and any family and secondly, what networks people use to help
the growth of their business - whether they be local, external, social
or professional etc. It is hoped that this work will enable a deeper
understanding of migrants' motivations - what draws people into certain
areas - and also of the networks that nurture and support new business
development in rural areas.
I am currently in the process of doing some scoping work to uncover some
of the important issues related to this topic both from a rural business
development perspective as well as from a migration perspective and am
looking to find people who have moved to rural Aberdeenshire and started a business to talk to for my research.
Please contact me (k.davis@macaulay.ac.uk) if you are able to help directly or are able to advise me about any rural in-migrant business owners in your area.
Kate Davis
6-Jun-2007
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